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The world is painted in blue on 'World Autism Awareness Day’
From the Sidney Opera House to the Empire State Building in New York, passing through Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer, on April 2 the most emblematic buildings worldwide will be painted in blue ...
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Canela Media, the Spanish content platform, gets boost with new funding
Canela Media, a New York-based digital technology company just announced it raised $32 million from investors in a recent Series A funding round. The firm, launched in 2019 with content aimed at the ...
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Fannie Mae hires first chief D&I officer for the newly created position
Fannie Mae has hired Sharifa A. Anderson as the company’s first Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, as well as part of the Management Committee. The news was announced in ...
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Four of California’s GOP lawmakers call out exclusion from state’s Latino Caucus
The California Latino Legislative Caucus — founded over 50 years ago in 1973 — was created to advance and fight for the educational, social, political and cultural interests of the large Latino ...
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The Black Maternal Momnibus Act of 2021 is out to tackle a “national shame” of maternal mortality
On Monday Feb. 8, Reps. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) and Alma Adams (D-NC), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), and the Black Maternal Health Caucus, introduced the Black Maternal Momnibus Act of 2021. During a ...
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Democrats propose a new path for immigrants protected by DACA and TPS
Let's make it clear beforehand: any proposal introduced by a coalition of representatives - even if approved in the House - goes through a long process of modifications to be negotiated in Congress.
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Exploring the ‘Latin explosion’ of the late ‘90s and early 2000s on ‘It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders’
Podcaster Sam Sanders took a recent look at popular music’s ‘Latin explosion,’ as first observed in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The conversation took place on Sanders’ NPR podcast, It’s Been a ...
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The story of Padre Roger still brings one Philly community back to its roots
Reverend Roger Zepernick doesn’t exactly remember the mode of transportation that brought him to Philadelphia for the first time back in 1965, but he does remember the looks he got when boarded his ...
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Dr. Ana Núñez bridges gaps in medicine at Drexel
When as a nine-year-old girl, Ana Núñez announced at the dinner table that she wanted to become a doctor, her family quickly corrected her. She could become a nurse, they said. But women aren’t ...
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‘National Moral Monday’ kicks off with demands to end the filibuster in D.C.
On Monday, Aug. 2, hundreds of faith leaders joined low-wage workers in direct action on Capitol Hill, as the Poor People’s Campaign continues to pressure the U.S. Senate to end the filibuster. This ...
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'You cannot change what you cannot see,' says Paola Santana
Emphasizing that she does not like to be labeled in any of the professional fields through which she has passed in her prolific career, Paola Santana is recognized for her impeccable work philosophy ...
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Rep. Nanette Barragán introduces her third climate and environmental justice bill in 117th Congress
U.S. Representative Nanette Barragán has introduced a new climate-justice bill to fight the disproportionate impact of environmental racism on low-income and communities of color, oftentimes the most ...